Comments on: A different breed of camera controllers?

By: vectragt

vectragt — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:19:09 +0000

Hello!

Perfect project, I buld this but not working….
How set the fuse bit in ponyprog ?
Can you help me?

Thanks.

By: Yipsilant

Yipsilant — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:15:07 +0000

This is a great write-up. I don’t own a camera and I still read the whole write-up. Lots to learn- that you can apply to other projects. Damn you Whiternoise, now I need buy a camera so I can make one of these. Thanks for the good write-up, they are few and far between.

-Yipsilant

By: Whiternoise

Whiternoise — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:42:14 +0000

(or rather Wiring, i forget what Arduino use)

But anyway, you are correct – “No Arduino”!

By: Whiternoise

Whiternoise — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:39:48 +0000

It is the same family of chip as Arduino.

The ATMega8 is kind of like the smaller brother to the ATMega168 that the Arduino uses. As such the pins are exactly the same, it just has a slightly reduced feature set.

I didn’t want to use an Arduino because A) i don’t own one and B) they’re a waste of a good piece of kit for a permanent thing like this. Oh and C) they’re a lot of money and would have nearly doubled the cost of the project!

The programmer, chip and cradle cost me less than an Arduino base pack and new micros are around £1.50-3 ($3-6) so it’s a substantial saving.

I’m also familiar with C (though no doubt my code needs a good cleanup) so that helped – no need to use processing.

Thanks for the feature guys :)

By: Sturmflut

Sturmflut — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:48:45 +0000

No Arduino?